Cask and Still Magazine | 23 NEW SPIRIT
Douglas Clement is a former caddy.
We hope to make money through our
visitor centre while our whisky matures. The Scottish Government gave me the grant and the Wemyss family invested millions of pounds because of our wonderful visitor centre, which is the key to the whole project. It also has a fantastic café and an exhibition that talks not just
ks not just
about whisky but about the history of our region and
the Wemyss family.
We also I joined the Scotch Malt
Whisky Society and visited lots of different distilleries. I did work experience with the Edrington group . I was applying for all the Government grants out there, and although a few really big ones just slipped through my fi ngers, September 2012 was the turning point because I secured a £670,000 food processing, marketing and cooperation scheme grant from the Scottish Government. I sold the idea to the Wemyss family, who
We have this amazing aroma-tron, with the scents that you get in whiskies inside cow horns
have this amazing
aroma-tron, with the scents
that you get in all the different whiskies inside
cows horns. Our fi rst cask is in our doocot along with 600 original terracotta doo
nesting boxes, and when you get to the tasting room, we give you
a gin alternative because we make gin in
London. At the moment Kingsbarns whisky is a number of years away, but in the summer we will start letting people try the new made spirit . The distillery is bigger and better than I
had the fi nance to make it happen. Wemyss were the ideal fi t because I’m from Fife and their ancestral home is also in Fife at Wemyss Castle . We bought an old farm steading that had
been derelict for 20 years. It was an at risk building, B listed from Historic Scotland, with a doocot (a dovecot) as a central feature. We opened to the public on 1 December and we started production three months ago.
could have imagined. It was going to be a craft distillery, but when Wemyss came on board they wanted to produce a lot more alcohol. We are going to produce 140,000 litres of spirit a year. What’s great is that when I started there was
one Fife distillery , but now there is a whole raft starting. I don’t see it as competition – I think we’re all going to be great for each other. I’m a passionate Fifer and I want to help make it famous for its whisky as well as the golf.
www.kingsbarnsdistillery.com
THE SHETLAND DISTILLERY CO. The Unst-based distillers of award- winning Reel Gin expect to produce single malts (the first legal whisky from Shetland and the most northerly malt whisky) in 2016.
www.shetlandreel
gin.com
WOLFBURN Built near the site of the old Wolfburn distillery in Thurso, the new venture is open. Its inaugural bottling takes place in March 2016.
www.wolfburn.com
ISLE OF HARRIS DISTILLERY
Hopefully operational this summer, this Tarbert distillery will have a shop, cafe and tours. www.harris
distillery.com
GARTBRECK Islay’s newest distillery aims to revive traditional methods. It will open and production will start in 2016. www.celtic-whisky. com/gartbreck
TORABHAIG Currently under construction on Skye’s south-east coast, the first spirit should flow by October 2016.
THE GLASGOW DISTILLERY, CLYDESIDE Work to revamp The Pump House is out to tender and it’s hoped the distillery will be up and running by May 2016.
www.adrattray.com
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